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A New Silence: The Supreme Court’s turn toward non-interference in hate-speech cases

The Court’s refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities

Hate Watch: ‘Swami’ Sanjay Prabhakaranand twists patriotic song into hate noise

The song, "Aao Bachcho Tumhen Dikhayen" is now worded to verbally abuse Mamata Banerjee and target Muslims

Only 8 election-time online hate speech complaints in 2022, only 130 instances since 2019: Centre

Although the ECI reported only eight online hate speeches in 2022, news coverage shows that social media still played a huge role in spread hate

Silence is not an option: Journalists to India’s Constitutional institutions

Senior journalists appeal for action against hate speech and open calls for genocide

Fake news about bombing in Bengal school, CJP moves NBDSA

News 18 had aired a story that turned out ot be completely devoid of facts

Uttar Pradesh: Ex MLA holds post-defeat meeting with supporters, threatens opponents 

Reeling under defeat, Sangeet Som claims “Baba's bulldozer and Som’s stick will both work” in his area of Sardhana, Meerut

Jitendra Tyagi’s Dharam Sansad hate speech intended to wage war: Uttarakhand High Court

The Court said that the freedom of speech is not an absolute right and is subject to limitations contained in Article 19(2) of the Constitution

Hate floods in the wake of ‘The Kashmir Files’

Right-wing makes the most of the movie’s impact and calls upon Indian Hindus to “open their eyes”

CJP Impact: Hate offender Deepak Sharma’s account suspended by Twitter

CJP was one of the first to flag his profile to the NHRC in 2018; Sharma continues to have a Facebook page

Another MCC violation, no action yet against Raghvendra Singh of BJP

CJP has written to SEC flagging second instance of hate speech by Singh during election campaign in UP

If Muslims don’t vote for me, they will get branded: Fateh Bahadur Singh, BJP MLA

Hate speech, communal threats have taken on many tones in the Uttar Pradesh elections, and Fateh Bahadur Singh, has his own ‘style’ 

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